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Lie and lay

Posted Aug 27, 2010 21:24 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Lie and lay by man_ls
Parent article: Og dreams of kernels

> English spelling is calling for some 21th century normalization.

Isn't this the task of American English?

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Lie and lay

Posted Aug 27, 2010 22:11 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Yes, but they stopped short, much too short of the really interesting rationalizations. I recommend reading Bill Bryson's "Mother Tongue" for a lot of interesting details about British and American English spelling and pronunciation.

Bryson...

Posted Aug 31, 2010 23:46 UTC (Tue) by kena (guest, #2735) [Link]

He done pissed me off. Put down my damn huts on the Appalachian Trail in NH (his former state; my current one), had a BUNCH of errors in his history-of-the-Universe (or was it world?), and... well... I guess he and I are just on different pages.

If he wants to be paged to disk, I'm okay with that.